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Gerhard
Interesting Symantec feature
I updated my Drive Image 6 to Symantec Ghost 2003 as I was told Ghost
should be nicer and better.
It seemed to be simpler to create an image than with DriveImage.
So I made an image from my partition C: (My drive has 4 partitions and
everything had been working well, till I crashed my XP pro.
(DriveImage needed 5 CD's for imaging C: with Ghost 7! Drive Image is
able to pack.)
This should be no disaster I thought, as I had my new Norton image
present.
So I booted with the image and Ghost started with telling me now to
overwrite all files.
I accepted.
After rebooting Windows started correct.
Every thing was fine.
Then I tried to start one program and Windows complained about not
finding the xxx.exe file.
I tried some others, the same.
All my programs hade been saved on a different partition than stand c:
I checked for the drives. There was only ONE left.
I installed PartitionMagic and checked the partitions.
Ghost altered the partition table to only one.
I was not able to recover the old partition table, as the rescue disks
from Norton utilities only checked for viruses.
So I had to install my WHOLE software NEW.
So now after 4 night shifts I'm able to write this.
I think I will delete everything called Symantec.
Good luck with Symantec software!
Gerhard
I updated my Drive Image 6 to Symantec Ghost 2003 as I was told Ghost
should be nicer and better.
It seemed to be simpler to create an image than with DriveImage.
So I made an image from my partition C: (My drive has 4 partitions and
everything had been working well, till I crashed my XP pro.
(DriveImage needed 5 CD's for imaging C: with Ghost 7! Drive Image is
able to pack.)
This should be no disaster I thought, as I had my new Norton image
present.
So I booted with the image and Ghost started with telling me now to
overwrite all files.
I accepted.
After rebooting Windows started correct.
Every thing was fine.
Then I tried to start one program and Windows complained about not
finding the xxx.exe file.
I tried some others, the same.
All my programs hade been saved on a different partition than stand c:
I checked for the drives. There was only ONE left.
I installed PartitionMagic and checked the partitions.
Ghost altered the partition table to only one.
I was not able to recover the old partition table, as the rescue disks
from Norton utilities only checked for viruses.
So I had to install my WHOLE software NEW.
So now after 4 night shifts I'm able to write this.
I think I will delete everything called Symantec.
Good luck with Symantec software!
Gerhard